Rebuilding An Airport Runway OVERNIGHT | Eberhard | Europe Vlog 3
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One of the most fascinating projects that Aaron has been a part of was this runway demolition at Zurich International Airport. Eberhard crews had to demolish and reconstruct 70 meters of runway each night.
The kicker? If they were even one minute past their deadline to reopen the runway they faced a $20,000 per minute penalty!
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-VIDEO CHAPTERS-
0:00 - Intro
1:54 - Peeling up the Runway
6:35 - Filling up/Paving the Runway
7:21 - Giving the 390 Wheels
8:40 - Outro - Auta a dopravní prostředky
I wonder if we could hire them to re-pave our roads. They could do every road in Indiana in like a month at that speed 😳
the problem is one of access. roads are so limited in space and time it takes forever. a project where we have total control of the site. such as a new warehouse, we can knockout insanely quick.
Yeah that interchange redo in the middle of Indy would be done in less than a month instead of the what? 2 years they plan on taking.
Aye I just moved away from that shit hole
Or michigan, omg the roads suck here
Yeah that will be an excellent idea but they might be too efficient for some people’s liking
That sequence of the 390 putting on wheels is just incredibly beautiful
So dainty, like a woman brushing her seat with a handkerchief before sitting.
It took him 3 trys to figure out where to put his bucket 🤷🏻♂️
@@DaelinTV I believe there was still some material in the bed of the truck that didn't come out and he was pushing it out of the way.. It was pretty obvious that he wasn't trying to figure out where to put it as in an empty bed, you just put it in the center of the bed.
@@VagueMemory Yep, youre right. when driving on Sleipner Wheels, there is always a small amount of gravel in die dump truck, where the excavator can place his bucket on.
Apa yang
Anda pikirkan?
I can't imagine being the foreman in charge of this orchestrated chaos, on one hand it's got to be an incredibly stressful job, but on the other hand what a rush of euphoria it would be once everything falls into place and starts moving along
Well these types of crews have this down to the minute and contingencies are always planned for.
Yeah if you got bunch of McDonald's bozos it would be difficult. And these men are trained and want to be there .
As someone who is an apprentice for this exact kind of stuff (not literally with the heavy machinery, but like same concept):
The euphoria is more addicting than caffeine. Literally.
@@mattshelton7423 it can be same concept but it can't be exact if it is not exactly what is in the video lol
@@user-it6cj9yo6w I started writing that comment one way then went back and changed it, missed that one, my B!
That's mental!I guess I've never thought about having to redo a runway without messing up air travel
The temporary wheels/transportation thing for the excavator blew my mind. I've never seen anything like that
There was something like that for bulldozers back in the 30s and 40s i had a 1937 Allis Chalmmers bulldozer that listed as a option in the manual a set of wheels that bolted on the side in the center and use the drawbar as a hitch to tow it to the next job
Same goes for snow removal on airport runways, you have to move from runway to runway in groups w your equipment and if you are on an active runway at the wrong time it's called an incursion and you will be most likely fined/jailed and even the FBI get involved.
@@markroderick3300 Just out of curiosity do you remember how many tons your dozer was?
@@AbeTweakin nah FBI won't get involved, in the US it'll be the NTSB and mostlikely you'll "get a number to call" first
@@TheGoldentale 6500lbs
the right people, the right machines and the right logistic - nothing is impossible
7:47 my favorite part is when the excavator is petting that truck. It's so affectionate
While trying to get that stuck piece out of its teeth 🤣
NAMA
Emily Emily
I worked in the asphalt/highway maintenance Feild for about 8 years and I have never seen anything as well planned out and prepared for as this. Very well done! And a blast to watch
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What construction project do you know of that had massive liquidated damages and how much were the penalties?
The project when your wife asks you to put up new shelf. After couple months the penalties can quite add up. Sometime you even need to pay for extra dinner.
interstate highway shutdown like 5 grand an hour
10000 an hour on an interstate shutdown. We had to have the job lined out right to pull six miles of two lanes and pour back full depth in a 60 hour window.
@@mastadriver winner
Port of Miami tunnel 50 grand a day
We're repaving the Jackson Hole Wyoming Airport right now with Knife River construction. They just shut the whole Airport down, no flights in or out until it's done. They get a bonus if finished ontime. The locals don't like it because of tourist season.
Jesus didn’t realize the knife river boys make it down to wy. I’m right off the knife river myself.
I’m just passed Splitface Junction
@@vidkeeper9 ya they're all over the country nowadays. They're all over idaho Montana and I believe Nevada too. And of course North Dakota.
I've seen knife river in Cali too.
Im really digging the aesthetic of construction equipment at night, in the rain, with only their headlights and some scene lighting present. With the dust from the digging it looks really cool.
Absolutely unreal. The excavator with the little skates on had my jaw on the floor the entire time. So cool
thanks for watching Austin
That‘s actually the way the do it in mines
The prevailing rate must’ve been amazing on this job.
Looks more like a symphony than chaos to me. Qualified people performing what they do best. Doesn't hurt either most of them are probably Germans.
That's what I was thinking. Nothing would get accomplished if it was chaos
why should they are be germans, in zurich switzerland?
Top tier operators in the country for that job
@@kk.9091 Swizz people only launder money, make chocolate and cheese.
@@kk.9091 even better, Swiss German.
I work at Heathrow and I see these boys do a huge amount of runway work from 2230hrs to 0430hrs to be ready for the first Singapore flight, British Airways 777-300
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ what the fuck are you on about, you lunatic. If God is real then he must be a c-nt because what kind of prick gives cancer to children or starts wars and famine
eemily792 v Mei 2021
Emily...
Crazy how the moment the US government gets involved road crews take 5 years to fix a damn thing.
Crazy how the Swiss government is the one doing this entire airport refurbishment project
@@TheMountainViewCompany sorry lemme edit hat since it was unclear
Thats because in the U.S. the jobs are all union jobs and the unions strectch these contracts out. As they say job security. They also know that they can squeeze as much money as they can out of it because they are federally subsidized.
@@sohomesick1 I could be wrong i never looked into it. But there are states in the south were unions are "outlawed?" For that exact reason. So the conclusion is the government likes to waste money
@@LeeFox1337 government does indeed like to waste money.Look at what they have been giving to Ukraine, billions upon bilions.And the worst thing is they gave a two year education system budget of the entire US to Ukraine in a single payment,one of many.Not to mention those millions of homeless people that could have been helped with that money.Or the health care that could have benefited from that money.But no,let's give money to the most corrupt country in the world and let's feel good about ourselves
That moxy going full speed down the run way was the funniest thing ive seen
finally, some people who take pride in making roads, even if it is a road for planes
those wheels for the excavator is the coolest thing i've seen in a long time.
It’s cool to watch all those big machines haul ass down a runway. It’s like watching a bunch of wild animals runnin
The track dollys for that excavator are pretty slick.
Love the attachments on the excavators
Those buckets are badass
They are custom made. Eberhard also developped the „Schienenhobel“ to rip out tram tracks.
I wish they could have brought a drone in to take pictures from above just to see how insane it would look
I knooooowwww :(
@Emily Emily
yang lalu
It takes our local council over two months to put in a pedestrian crossing, they could learn a lot from these guys.
Risking a 1.2 million dollar per hour fine puts in perspective how much the project in whole is worth. I’m guessing well over a Billion dollars.
Not even close 😂. Bruh the whole airport ain’t worth that
Probably somewhere in the 50-100 million dollar range.
You could rebuild the airport for 2 billion? The penalties are only huge because of the airline's liabilities in Europe. If your flight is delayed there you get a cash settlement that increases with the delay.
I’d agree with the billion dollars. I just did an interstate job, 1 mile of new full depth construction new D.I s dropping fiber optic cable and telephone in some areas where new sub grade elevation ran into cables it was for 85 million
@@TricksterTimbo exactly, 80 million for 70 nights
These guys get shit done! I wish we could've seen more.
Love these longer videos! Great cinematography as always!!
This crew did more in 5 hours than my city has done in a whole year and a half
Everyone interested in the wheel system they use to transport the CAT 385 and 390. Search for "Sleipner wheels". Pretty common thing, but mostly used in quarrys.
The PA turnpike has egregious fines for contractors
I've always been appreciative of industrial engineering, mega machines and construction bros, now ur making me want to get involved
everyone's hiring!
I got a job staging equipment for a big rental company and it's great so far. I have an app on my phone that tells me what machines I need to stage and I just need to make sure they are full of fuel and functioning properly... I'd say the coolest part of the job is testing brand new equipment. It shows up with plastic on the seat and etc less than 10 hours, and my job is to figure out how to operate it so that I can show everyone else.
Coolest thing I did recently was function test a brand new fully electric Takeuchi mini ex. It was brand new, and fully charged but it kept showing a code for a battery issue.
After lots of testing and seeing everything was fine we just called Takeuchi - turns out with these electric excavators you need to drain the battery down to less than 5%, then recharge...
and it takes them 3 months to replace a small bridge in my area… been having to go around it for 3 MONTHS.
It didn't really set in for me just how much was going on at once here until at about 4:10 when you are in the foreground of.. let me count.. 6-7 VISIBLE excavators? And they are not slowly moving but rather deliberately and energetically all choreographed in this chaos. And thats when it clicked, just how much of this is happening at once, just how impressive it is. Wow.
Edit: When I saw they had the 390 on those two wheels and the dump truck started backing up to it I was saying to myself: "No way. They aren't about to do what I think they are."
yuuppp. they turned it into a trailer :D
Yeah that's how you get a track machine across a wide area in a hurry without tearing up the surface you're crossing or overheating the rollers in the tracks
Don’t let the safety manager see them do that in the US, they’ll find a dozen regulations that say that’s unsafe. Meanwhile every where else in the globe the job gets done without even a near miss happening.
This is the content you were made to make! You killed this!
As an equipment operator myself I did enjoy seeing a well organized system. Its not often ya get to see that.
thanks for watching
Best video you dudes have made yet
thanks Nick. We're learning!
It truly is amazing what humans can do when they put their minds to it.
WALO, Eberhard and Implenia are all really big companies with different specialties and seeing the experts coming together like this is pretty amazing. I mean the speed is just insane when you compare it to how long it takes to replace taxiways at the same airport where there is not this kind of time pressure.
An operation like this makes an airport runway look like a morning driveway job
Those concrete demo buckets are pretty rad👍👍
I can't tell you how happy I am to see that Wirtgen is getting some love!
You make construction work look like a Jason Bourne movie! This is rad bro!!
Idk why but I was so pumped when I saw the Wheeler Cat sticker on your hard hat. Way to represent🙌🏻
Another cracking video guys 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😍
As an op that is pretty wild how fast they can go, but it all comes down to a few things: proper planning, good equip(including spares of everythin and someone to repair), and better ops, and the best groundmen.... I also find it funny whenever there's a show with the big boy Tonka toys.....the 3-5 note power chords get thumping as the theme song...
Very impressive work
That’s was awesome, love the machines!!
This is absolutely incredible
Looks like Urs took good care of you guys, he is a good man!!
this is the one i was waiting to see
DUUUUDE! Glad to see your doing awesome work! Seems like yesterday we were pulling sunken Siddle’s canoes outta lakes and rivers.
hahahahahahaha some of my all-time favorite memories
always fun only watching 3/4 of the process...
These videos are better than a tv show i love it!
I do not know how you came up on my feed!!???? BUT I AM VERY HAPPY YOU DID!!!
Now that’s taking efficiency to the next level
That's my kind of job site. Those guys are amazing
This is what you call organized chaos! Everything went smoothly as planned
Amazing video some amount on construction machines there weird seeing them without beacons but guess that's so it doesn't distract planes
eberhard is crazy efficient
The boys are making bank on this one👍
Time is money and this is how projects should be run
As always an awesome video
Thanks for watching Andy
Was wondering how they could have planes land that soon after pouring new concrete and then you said pave. Asphalt won't last nearly as long
Yes but asphalt has a better friction coefficient so it grips better
@@jameson1239 Grips better and is quicker to replace so they don't need to shut down operations
@@chewy3141 also recyclable
Their fast af
Its cute how all of you are so shocked. I live in Canada, we have 2 seasons here, winter and construction, to repave a few km takes months. I went back to Taiwan for vacation, stayed at my aunt's store overnight and the 8 lane intersection was stripped and paved overnight, I didn't even see them getting ready late into the evening. I have never seen road construction in Taiwan, everything is just done over one night.
So people don't have the right to be appreciative of the hard work of several hundreds of people to prevent the delay of several thousands of pre-booked flights while still done precisely enough for hundreds of people to trust their lives to land on an hour old run-way just because you have to "one up" them? Aright.
@@cesarpalmos8235 we got a pessimist here. Did I even remotely suggest people can't be appreciative? no, not at all. I'm just saying, hard efficient work is nothing to be shocked at, that is it, it's not that deep. Also, your little run-on paragraph doesn't make sense, how does "one up"ing = people not having the right to be appreciative? I suggest you stop seeing everything on social media as "toxic", it'll help detox you as well.
@@gwot I like how you are trying to damage control, good luck buddy.
@@cesarpalmos8235 perfectly explained your own situation. I personally don't care about other people, so if I even thought about insulting others, taking away their rights, I would, I don't shy away from it. But putting words in my mouth, and mis-interoperating my words? no, that's you unable to comprehend, much like you right now being in denial and attempting to re-direct that shame onto others.
@@gwot Still at it.
Your videos are awesome. The only at you edit them is awesome. Really you guys are the best. Can’t believe you don’t have way more subscribers. Love it all. Awesome Job very professional
thank you very much Kevin I appreciate you watching
I love plane and I love heavy equipment I think I just found my new profession🤟🏼
We need these guys to finish the 10 Freeway
At 7:38 onwards it kinda reminded me of when video game characters drink a glass of water without the glass
Such an amazing vlogs, Your shoots makes some amazing film! First time watching your channel and I'm inmpressed
Here in michigan they close the roads down just because they want to. No one actually is ever seen working on the roads, cones just show up blocking 2-3 lanes on traffic for no reason
It's not chaos, it's a very skilled Crew
Let's get these guys to do the roads here in Vegas
It seems it's the construction site for which I was doing electro magnetic probing for explosive ordnance back in 2019. Took quite a long time. Walked thousands of m² per night. Was a great job!
Awesome video, i really like your channel 👍🏻
Thank you!!
The intro looks like the construction autobots are showing up for the boss fight.
I worked on the Stansted project this year with 200 machines and 1500tones of Marshall binder and surface course a night over 100 nights
Hey Aaron...... Would you like to shoot a video about installing, sanding, and painting gymnasium floors? We would love to host your show!!
Roller skating rink floors in the early 80s. 16 grit sanding discs glued to the bottom of out boots. Poured it out of 5 gallon buckets and pushed it around with squeegees till it was smooth. The coating did have finely ground glass mixed in for traction with the skate wheels so the coating was slightly opaque. Only had one guy fall down in it. Probably way different today.
This is a heavy equipment channel not flooring
@@TheWowthatsick you would be suprised how much goes into a gym floor hell rubber flooring for a gym HAS to be done in ONE CONTINUS pour and the use five gallon buckets. trust me flooring a gym is no carpeting a house
It's chaos sure, but intricately orchestrated and impeccably time chaos.
POWER 🤟 Please Longer 😁👏
We didn't do anything like this, but I did pour a super Walmart. Of course right off the exit area. We had to have the road shutdown for hours as lines of concrete trucks were slowly being emptied. We needed an extra 20 trucks that day. City fined us for obstruction of a motorway, and we forwarded it to Walmart. Not our problem the city allowed it to be built off the exit ramps. And not our problem they fined us for it. Walmart payed the company back.
Here in Pennsylvania cherry hill construction a company owned by Tutor Perini had a huge state highway job and completely screwed it up.. they have 31 million in liquidated damages. four years behind schedule and seven years since construction started.Originally bid at $58.7 million, the project has risen to a total of $63.3 million.
I love the vids I just wish we could see the end product 👍👍
When he said it was almost 3 in the morning I was like yea same here 😅
Dude love ur channel ! New sub
Stoked to have you
Chaos isnt the right word here
Haha, mad cool bro ☺️
This is cool
Cool video 😎
My GTA career has me so envious of you my good sir
Nice video!!
We’re paving a turnpike and it’s $20,000 an hour I believe further north on the turnpike it’s $20,000 a min.
The 390 on the wheels👀👀👀
Reminds me of rail construction , This one time a certain company damaged turnout switch , and the iron ore operation went down for 24 hours at a rate of $70,000 a minute . ROFL
Yeah rail is gnarly too
Quite the ballet going on out there.
And we know how those Swiss are about their watches.
Wow so flipping cool How they transport the excavator
Great video. Still would like longer personally. Are there no beacons because of planes landing on other runways?
They replace the electric lines for the beacons too
It’s like an orchestrated ballet. Try putting it to classical music.
We need this crew on I-66 to finish up their years of work.